None of us expect it to happen to us, but then it inevitably does. In my case, two times. I’m refering to losing my mobile phone.
The first time I lost my mobile was clearly due to too many drinks on a boys night out. Thinking back I was using my mobile phone on my way home and must have left it on the back seat of the taxi. The following morning, when I realized what had happened, I called the cab firm only to hear that my phone had not been found. I suddenly became aware of how much of my life was stored on that little device.
I vowed that I would be far more careful in future and get myself some mobile phone insurance to cover the cost of replacement. But the expense was the last of my concerns as I’d lost a whole load of telephone numbers and contact details that were only stored on my phone and nowhere else.
We all do it. We’ve all gotten into the habit of simply entering someones contact details into our telephones and rarely do we back these up to our computers or even to an old fashioned address book.
The second time I lost my mobile phone was on another night out but this time I wasn’t the worse for drink. I am convinced that a pickpocket was operating in the club and they had expertly removed the phone from my pocket. It’smore likely that I dropped it on the floor when getting some cash from my pocket at the bar. I was in a nightclub so I told the bar staff and security guys but, unfortunately, my phone didn’t turn up.
Unfortunately I had not followed my own advice and hadn’t taken out a mobile phone insurance policy. But, subsequent to my previous experience I had kept a record of all the new phone numbers and contact details that were on the device so the loss wasn’t quite as disastrous as it had been the previous time.
You may be wondering if there is a moral to this tale? Not really. But I strongly recommend that you regularly backup all of your contact details from your mobile phone and consider getting some insurance to cover the cost of replacement.